India urged global action after a deadly Kabul strike even as Pakistan denied targeting civilians, deepening a fast-escalating conflict with Afghanistan and raising concerns over regional stability.
For more than three years, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have projected an image of seamless unity: one leader, one command, one vision.
According to Tolo News, the exact number of casualties has not been disclosed, and the cause and nature of the explosion still remain unclear. Security officials have not yet issued a detailed official statement.
The 2,640-km-long Durand Line is more than just a frontier. It is a century-old scar on the map of South Asia - a scar that has bled into three Anglo-Afghan wars, the Cold War, the Taliban’s rise, and today’s great power rivalries. For the Afghan Pashtun, this line is not history.
"This decision underscores India’s resolve to deepen its bilateral engagement with the Afghan side in all spheres of mutual interest," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement on Tuesday.
"I have not slept properly since the trouble started in Afghanistan, with many more like me, whose husbands work there, going through the same thing," said Mrs Thapa. Mr Thapa is employed in Kabul as a security guard since 2017. He first went there to work in 2012. Back home here, he has a wife and a 14-year-old daughter."
Reports said people of various ages, both women and men, some without passports, are seeking to board aircraft and evacuate the country
The goal is to ramp up to one evacuation flight per hour by Wednesday, with 5,000 to 9,000 evacuees leaving per day, Taylor and Kirby said
It isn’t that such an event was not anticipated or has come as a surprise to anyone following even the slightest of international news.
Providing a sigh of relief to those stranded in Afghanistan, the Indian Air Force (IAF) plane carrying more than 150 Indian nationals from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to Jamnagar.
